Word: soft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pairs of snow shoes and other trapping and hunting parifinalia were still found in his cabin, they claim he may have fallen into the river. Experienced trappers say that the Copper River has been very soft as this has been a warm winter for Alaska. The volunteers were seen going down the R. R. on a gasoline speeder toward the south-end again yesterday. The search will be continued...
...thiocyanates thin out the proteins. In certain types of insanity (the manias) the brain apparently becomes permanently boiled. In other types (catatonia) the brain is diluted. Using drugs which give the opposite effect helps the various insane types, and sometimes cures. Lack of oxygen lets the brain get soft. Hence, said Wilder Dwight Bancroft (Cornell) who with his colleague G. Holmes Richter made these observations: "Aviators may become incapacitated temporarily when flying at high altitudes. There is a height for each aviator above which it is not safe for him to go, as he may develop mental confusion, leading...
...Teetotalers but musical, the Snowdens recently entertained Feodor Chaliapin who, they had heard, insists upon champagne. They gave him sparkling soft cider in champagne glasses. Many British Budget speeches, including those of Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, have been made on whiskey & soda...
...Thank you. I am very glad to have it," replied the President as with a characteristic little nod of his head he took the document. The Wet delegates then lined up and went filing past the President as he stood before his desk. The soft Hoover hand shook 534 times and 534 times the Hoover formula of welcome was repeated : "Very pleased to see you . . . very pleased to see you . . . very pleased...
...fragrant pine forest in North Carolina. There, awaiting its first formal inspection by important outsiders, stood the most prodigious new educational project in the land this century?Duke University, now nearly complete though little grass yet grows on its sandy campus, no ivy on its neo-Gothic walls of soft-colored fieldstone...